“…If there was a better way to go then it would find me, I can’t help it, the road just rolls out behind me, be kind to me, or treat me mean, I’ll make the most of it, I’m an extraordinary machine…” – Excerpt from Fiona Apple’s Extraordinary Machine The phrase “Open Access” is something that Read More…
Social Change
College Education: Corporate Venture or Elitist Scam?
Often, all it takes is one phrase typed into the “Search Bar”, and it ends up feeling like a trip down the rabbit hole—a reversal of perspective, a grand epiphany, or perhaps the disturbing, bony prod of the many internet concepts that were never intended for humans to observe. This one, however, started as something Read More…
American Hubris
There was once a group of men who saw on the horizon the potential for a new kind of government. One that was ruled by reason, not desire. These men chose to put their very lives and that of their families on the line for a chance, just a slim chance, that the world would Read More…
“We the People” Have Returned
“As has been well documented, I smoked pot as a kid, and I view it as a bad habit and a vice, not very different from the cigarettes that I smoked as a young person up through a big chunk of my adult life, I don’t think it is more dangerous than alcohol.” -President Barack Obama, Read More…
Rebuilding Higher Education
As the American empire shakes itself apart, this generation will find itself with fewer and fewer options. Economic contraction (two words everyone should become familiar with) will eat away at every layer of this economy. Climate change will act as a threat multiplier, high-power weather patterns will destroy infrastructure, and leave less money to invest Read More…
Marijuana on Trial for Freedom: The Hearing of Cannabis and the Schedule One Placement
On the 27th of October a hearing will be held in California to determine whether cannabis should remain on the schedule one substance restricted list. Information will come to light that many have known since the substance was inducted: the classification of cannabis as a schedule one substance is unjustified, and that is has Read More…






